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PSA: Get Your Own Patriotic Protection Apparatus, Courtesy of the Asheville Tea Party

In the wake of the massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary (as well as the alarming violent trend in its aftermath), you’re probably thinking to yourself, “Hey, I really need a gun.” Or you already exercise your rights to the fullest, and you’re thinking, “Hey, I really need more guns.” Either way, you’re sick of soft lawmakers who aren’t willing to address the issue in a meaningful way – ok, so some politicians are finally suggesting we arm our schoolteachers, but you’re an American, damnit, and you need to be equipped directly and immediately. Luckily, if you live in the Asheville, North Carolina area, the Asheville Tea Party has you covered.

From the patriotic Americans who brought you the hit family event MACHINE GUN SOCIAL comes THE GREAT GUN GIVEAWAY. For just a $20 or $10 donation respectively, you can be entered to win the DPMS Panther Oracle AR-15 or the Keltee PMR-30 .22 Magnum pistol. Want the details? Sure you do!

The DPMS Panther Oracle AR-15 provides its owner with SO MUCH PROTECTION because you can fire a lot of rounds very quickly – and look! It comes with two 30-round magazines, so you’ll be ready for some serious protecting the instant your prize changes hands. It also comes with a carrying case, but you’ll probably just want to sling it around your back on one of those fancy straps. If you’re more the handgun type, $10 gives you the chance to win the Keltee .22 Magnum, a particularly special pistol because, as the flyer notes, it’s the rare military version, which is bound to bring its new owner intoxicating feelings of EXTREME PROTECTION. You won’t have to tell those neighbor kids twice to turn down that Hip-Hop anymore! The pistol even holds a 30-round clip in case you have to foil a shooting and haven’t had much time yet to practice.

Remember – you must be able to pass the usual background check to receive your prize, so make sure you have a piece of paper where you’ve written (in pen – keep it official!) that you are, in fact, the person you’re going to say you are the day you claim your weapon. Also, be grateful your country doesn’t actively identify and document any subtle or obvious psychological conditions you may have as long as they haven’t surfaced yet.

If you have any questions, please submit them in person to the Asheville Tea Party any Thursday at 6p.m., when the group meets at the IHOP by the Asheville Regional Airport (which definitely isn’t the most depressing thing ever). Don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of The GREAT GUN GIVEAWAY, because you can never be too safe. No, seriously, you can NEVER be too safe anymore – have you seen all the guns all over the fucking place lately?

If you click on that Donate Online link you will get spam from the depths of hell.

MissNancyPriss

Thank you for the head's up.

EatsBabyDingos

Does the AR-15 come in Pink or Hello Kitty?

Antispandex

Who cares? They're GIVING that shit away! You can apply some cool stickers later. If you don't have a Sanrio Surprises in your neighborhood, you can get that stuff on-line….might need a background check.

EnnuiThereYet?

Instead of boring lunch boxes, kids can now express their personalities with neat-o gun decorations. Get the Star Wars guys on this pronto.

Is this the last we're going to hear about the Tea Party? They used to fill up stadiums; now they're at the IHOP.

BerkeleyBear

They keep doing this shit. Remember the "fun event" where they shot at pictures of Debbie Wasserman-Schulz? Or how AZ just had to name a state gun right after Gabby Giffords got shot?

But none of this has anything to do with the GOP being full of intolerant racist idiots convinced that when the race war they've been trying to drive this country towards for decades finally comes they will somehow be able to survive all on their little lonesome with a collection of small arms, surplus MRES and faptastic movies like Red Dawn and 300.

I actually wish they'd just get it over with and bunker down. Then we could start cordoning them off until the virus passes.

SigDeFlyinMonky

We tried that cordoning off business, but then the cordon blew!

kissawookiee

I'm sorry; i haz a confused. Do I need to show my Man Card in order to pick up my prize, or does it come with a new one?

chicken_thief

Fuck that man card shit. They call yer name, you walk up and take that sumbitch like it was yer mother's milk. Anybody sez anything, butt stroke the motherfucker.

Respitetini

It comes with an exponentially-scaled ruler, for all your compensation needs.

justkillmenow

That .22 pistol is for wimps. For a .22 to do any good you would have to be very close range. The upside: a .22 will rattle around the skull fucking things up along the way.

Dudleydidwrong

Unfortunately it is a .22 magnum, which uses a longer cartridge than the standard .22 long rifle. Wikipedia says this about it:

The .22 WMR is effective out to 125 yd (115 m) on varmints such as fox or coyote. When loaded with hollow-point bullets, it is too destructive for small game (under 50 yd [45 m]), such as rabbits or prairie dogs or anything intended for eating.[2]

In 2011, Speer released a .22 magnum version of their Gold Dot Personal Protection ammo, and Hornady of their Critical Defense ammo.[12] Both are optimized for the short barrels found in self-defense handguns. Both are made for self-defense.

FakaktaSouth

What in the hell? I think a major fucking problem we have with guns in this country is how we sell them. Protect yourself! They're coming to take yer shit! I looked this up, and Asheville had 2 murders per 100K in 2008-2010. And there are more than 85K people living there. Crime in general is low-average. What the hell are you PROTECTING YOURSELF!!!! from with a fucking "PANTHER ORACLE" in god damned Asheville, North Carolina, other than what is in your head and now a bunch of rednecks with Machine gun fetishes who have tea time parties? What the fuck man.

chicken_thief

Duh. From the attack of the Biltmores. Coming on Dec 22, probably, assuming the Mayans got it wrong.

Negropolis

But, but black people, Fakakta! They are always plotting, always scheming to shoot you to take your shit!

This, in addition to being tone deaf it's not really something that will appeal to your average mass murderer. A .22 with a 30 round clip? What are you supposed to do with that? A mass squirrel killing? Kill a room full of rabbits? Ok, maybe the AR has some redneck cred, but a .22? NOT trying hard enough to offend!

Goonemeritus

Directly after the Hindenburg tragedy many people had a hard time controlling their desire to acquire a Zeppelin.

It had been so long since I've seen good old poetry grace our wonkette comments. I'm just slightly bummed it had to be these circumstances to prompt a reciting.

ETA: reciting adaptation. Well done.

Wadisay

It would be cheaper if they just gave away industrial-strength doses of Viagra.

Tommy1733

Maybe this is just a trick by Anonymous.

Callyson

I seriously think Anonymous infiltrated this group to set this up and make the Tea Party look bad (more so.) Good for them.

Tommy1733

" armed-to-the-tits" – THANK YOU FOR THAT!!

StillGoinGreen

Being an ex-cop, I could tell you a lot of horror stories about guns in the home. I'll spare you the really bad ones and tell you one that ended well:

We rolled up on a 9.1.1. call once, where neighbors had called in multiple shots fired. My heart was racing when we approached the door, but we heard, "It's OK" being yelled out. We commanded them to come outside. It was a man and his wife, both freaked the hell out! He had "heard something" and grabbed his pistol and snuck out the back door to catch the "thief" trying to get in his bedroom window. When he realized the althea bush was scratching the window, he went back in through the door he exited… to find his wife holding her pistol. He screamed and she freaks out, firing 3 rounds at him. He yelled again, flinched and accidentally fired off a round into the floor, causing her to empty the clip. We counted 11 shots confirmed – one grazing hit… and one accidentally discharged bladder. We arrested both – one for warrants and one for a felon in possession of a handgun. The kids slept through it all.

BaldarTFlagass

That cherry vodka keeps the lil squirts down for hours. Also, mom & dad sound like they may have been a little, how you say, tweaky?

StillGoinGreen

Let's just say we knew the neighborhood well, really well. I was a VERY new officer and didn't laugh at shit, cause… TOUGH GUY!! But they were funny as hell when they were telling us the story and tweaking around all toothlesslike, reenacting it and laughing at themselves. Daddy said, "shit, I even pissed myself!" Then Mama said, "better'n what you usually do!". And they laughed and laughed, the whole time we were cuffing them. I had the one in piss, and I was glad for it!

docterry6973

The Aristocrats!

StillGoinGreen

Not enough poop or Sarah Silverman.

BaldarTFlagass

Oracles for Anacles.

MissTaken

I wonder if they combined the Machine Gun Social with the old lady knitting club's Ice Cream Social. Two birds, one bullet.

The Asheville Tea Party – Come for the wing nut conservatism, stay for the free penis substitute.

Tommy1733

Oh, come on – are you suggesting that Job Creators who happen to be Creating Jobs in the PATRIOTIC PROTECTION APPARATUS sector might be encouraging the baser instincts among the more easily suggestible, who also happen to be able to match the PPA price point, solely or largely based on pure amoral profit motive?

I was a little worried that 60 rounds with the AR-15 wouldn't provide enough protection. Checking around, though, I find you can easily pick up more 30-round clips for around $14 each. (Lowest price quoted was $8.95, but they were out of stock at the moment.)

chicken_thief

If a person needs more than 30 rounds to *protect their home* they don't need a second clip, they need better fucking glasses.

Tommy1733

Dang when you put it that way, 60 rounds is barely any protection at all.

BaldarTFlagass

Either that or you will get AK-rolled.

mavenmaven

Next they'll start shooting up the schools and summer camps of liberals, to kill the liberals when they are young before they grow up and threaten their guns.

actor212, you gotta hit the "Play" button!
The 2012 Olympics animated Google doodle of the kayak / raft races was as close as I got to experiencing anything resembling actual footage, which aired too late/early on the teevee for me to get to see any of it..

Wile E. Quixote

You forgot about the fucknut from Utah who wanted to make John Moses Browning's birthday a state holiday on MLK day.

not that Dewey

After the Great Gun Giveaway, they should head across the street to the Asheville Airport and "test the system" of the TSA carry-on policy.

northernbassist

The AR-15 they're showing here is modified with the addition of the 'ATF approved Bumpski stock.' This piece of American engineering ingenuity provides the closest thing to FULL AUTOMATIC fire without actually having a machine gun. The technology uses the recoil of the weapon to cycle the bolt, so you just just hold your finger on the little piece of metal that activates the firing pin( the Palin curse prevents me from using the specific word) and the gun does everything else for you. I know you'll all want to add one to YOUR AR-15s, as soon as you can sell enough hobo beans to come up with the $450.00 or so it takes to purchase this marvel. And it's available for your AK-47, too!!!

BTW, it's Kel-Tec, not Kel-Tee. They also make a 12 gauge shotgun that holds 15 rounds, for those hooligan duck and goose gangs.

And, may I just say, fuck the Asheville Tea Pac repeatedly with huge, molten, spiky…votes

chicken_thief

Full auto is a feature for idiots and Hollywood screen writers. It's like waxing your eyebrows with napalm.

docterry6973

The technology uses the recoil of the weapon to cycle the bolt. Don't lots of machine guns do that too? How is this legal oh never mind.

SorosBot

They're just following the advice of John Lennon; happiness is a warm gun.

Bitter concern trolling prommie is bitter and concern trolling. But what else is new?

chicken_thief

Every few years there is an article where the hubby or the wife wakes up with a splitting headache that just won't go away, so they eventually break down and go to the doc only to find that there is a .22 bullet lodged in their skull.

chicken_thief

They don't even know what a scone is in NC. Them's real 'Merkuns. They eat donuts. By the bushel basket full.

Wile E. Quixote

Hey now, be nice, these guys have a point. If Ronald Reagan and James Brady had been packing heat back in March of 1981 they could have defended themselves against John W. Hinckley and dropped him with one shot.

Tommy1733

Yes. They use pancakes as clay pigeons, launch them out in the parking lot, and the lucky patriot gets to shoot em as they fly.

valgal2342

You gotta admit that's sounds kinda fun…..

mbobier

Man! This is a LOT more interesting than the penny-ante raffles seen in so many church basements! Who needs the youth group to paint your garage when you can have a semi-automatic death machine?

That's what has me shaking my head. It's probably one of the only cities in the Carolinas I would *choose* to live. Maybe also Charleston or Hilton Head.

An_Outhouse

I noticed all the comments are 'OFF' on their website. This is probably because Asheville Tea Party probably consists of one person. You realize every hippy in NC lives in Asheville, right?

DahBoner

MACHINE GUN SOCIAL?

Sure you can get together with other fat obnoxious stupid Teatards and unload 400 talking points a minute, wasting both time and money, making nothing but noise and a stink in the air but IT FEELS SO GOOD…